Washington
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American
The name American must always exalt the pride of patriotism.
Antipathy
Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided.
Arbitrary
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused licentiousness.
Check
Useful check upon the administration of government.
Exchangeability
The law ought not be contravened by an express article admitting the exchangeability of such persons.
Humble
Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy nation.
Improve
True policy, as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to improve the occasion.
Intrenchment
On our side, we have thrown up intrenchments on Winter and Prospect Hills.
Ligament
Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts.
Magnanimous
There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.
Meditate
I meditate to pass the remainder of life in a state of undisturbed repose.
Meliorate
The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.
Option
There is an option left to the United States of America, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptible and miserable, as a nation.
Progress
They progress in that style in proportion as their pieces are treated with contempt.
Religion
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Slavery
I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this state [Virginia] could see the policy of a gradual abolition of slavery. It might prevent much future mischief.
Spell
Nothing new has happened in this quarter, except the setting in of a severe spell of cold weather.
Test
Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.
Unparalleled
The unparalleled perseverance of the armies of the United States, under every suffering and discouragement, was little short of a miracle.